Excellent
Media Lens alert that contrasts the media's respectful reception of
Boris Johnson's recent policy U-turn on Syria, now to back Assad, and
the same media's apoplexy at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after his
spokesman Seumas Milne expressed some honest thoughts about Syria.
ML:
How to explain the ferocious criticism of Milne's innocuous comments
and the complete absence of any criticism of Johnson's policy shift?
The answer is clear enough: the corporate media system is ideologically
aligned against an authentically left-wing Labour leader, is working to
undermine his reputation, and to protect the reputation of the
Conservative government. It is equally clear that the corporate media's
outrage at Milne and its supposed compassion for the Syrian people are
manufactured, fake.
Democracy is not compatible with mass media
that systematically headline and highlight angry criticism of left-wing
politicians while excluding criticism of the right-wing politicians
opposing them. The truth is that the UK corporate press is working
relentlessly to crush democratic freedom of choice threatening elite
interests. Forget 'fake news', the corporate media system is itself
fake. It is primarily a conduit, not for news and views, but for
control.
